After-care bus crash sends 6 children, 2 adults to hospitals

A child and an adult were sent to hospitals with serious injuries in a crash involving a pickup truck and a small private bus taking children home from an after-care program.

The crash that happened about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday near Northwest 19th Street and 15th Avenue sent a total of six children and two adults to Broward Health Medical Center and Plantation General Hospital, according to Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue.

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One of the children on the bus, Jonasia Hamilton, 10, told WTVJ-Ch. 6 that there was a lot of screaming and crying after the crash.

“Some white truck came out of nowhere and hit us and all the kids just took off their seat belts and started running out,” she told the station.

Family members told WPLG-Ch. 10 that the children aboard the bus attend Bennett Elementary School in Fort Lauderdale.